Patrick Steinhardt [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Combined with the vintage of Git binary that had these help text,
the fact that an "enabled" line is missing is enough clue to
diagnose.
...

One reason why I personally prefer to have enabled/disabled is that it
allows you to discern the following two cases:

  - You have a modern version of Git that doesn't have gettext.

  - You have an old version of Git that doesn't know to print
    information about whether or not gettext is enabled.

When you see no "gettext:" line in the report, you can tell between
the above two cases by looking at what the first entry in the same
report "git version --build-options" produced, which is the Git
version, can't you?